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7 | 1,390,738,999 | 14 | It is revealed that all imaging of the earth from space has been altered because the true shape had to be censored | Jared's lips curled up, baring his teeth
'So what did you think of the take-off?'
Tom gasped, he hadn't realized he was still holding in his breath. He looked to his right. The lean scrawny face of his senior officer loomed over him.
'It was rough to say the least, sir. Fairly exciting too!'
'I'm glad to hear that y... | 18 |
26 | 1,390,749,932 | 22 | An immortal enlists in the army. | War has changed so much since my first fight. Heck, the world period has changed. When I first took up arms it was to defend my first, and now long dead family. I was cursed by a Sumerian witch to live like this. Through the years I've been staked in the heart, beheaded, lopped in half, shot, blown up, shot down, and b... | 20 |
27 | 1,390,752,095 | 55 | The secret to immorality is killing a newborn child. What is the world like? | Pro-lifers don't like it. Almost no-one likes it. But people have done it. You know who's done it. On your street, in your school, in your workplace. Even some celebrities. We're not pointing fingers but both Kim Kardashian and Putin have the same guilty sheen of eternal youth. There's the news that some poor kidnapped... | 93 |
8 | 1,390,754,448 | 15 | Science proves that the universe is a computer simulation. Five years on, what's happened? | If you ask the masses today of what a team achieved at CERN in 2016 that changed their life, they will stare blankly and ask what you mean. Some of their eyes will flicker while doing it and some with ignore the question.
I mean how would you react if someone asked you what your feelings were about an event that was y... | 11 |
26 | 1,390,761,097 | 33 | After a failed invasion of earth, an alien begs for mercy from a human soldier | Edit: Forgot to mention that I tried to model this off of Mordin Solus, from Mass Effect. Similar speech and thinking. Hope you enjoy.
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Resistance was unanticipated. The ships encountered at First Contact were rudimentary. Humans have advan... | 25 |
3 | 1,390,777,940 | 16 | Breaking a Promise is Punishable By Death | The man sat in front of me, his desperation was clear in his face. I gave my secretary a quick glance, her silent nod confirming my suspicion. He was the usual sort of customer.
The irresponsible type, often a parent, who had made a rash promise to their child. Children are often the death of us these days.
"I-um," H... | 10 |
24 | 1,390,779,150 | 55 | ur first interstellar ship exits the solar system, only to be confronted by a border-guard (more inside) | The I.S.V. Amundsen was not built for warfare. It was a small colony ship, barely holding 600 souls in all. So when the alien vessel caught the ship with a barrage of ion cannons, there was nothing to be done. In retrospect, there was no way we could have translated their warnings. Radio messages of peace from us were ... | 45 |
6 | 1,390,785,664 | 28 | Elvis, John Lennon, and Tupac are enjoying a pleasant day on the beach on the private island they retired to after faking their deaths, when a stranger washes ashore from a shipwreck. | "B-b-b...But why!?!"
The three men stared at their newly arrived guest as if he'd grown a second head. Kurt stared back, just as confused. In front of him were legends, *living* legends, he supposed. That old joke turned out to be true, and all of the famous people who up and died really were just relaxing on a beach ... | 24 |
23 | 1,390,786,858 | 16 | Write a story that features someone breaking the heart of someone they love for the betterment of both (or just one) of them. | "I don't know what else to say." I said with shrugged shoulders and a blank look over my face like a mask. "Keep your mask on. You must sell this." I told myself over and over again. It was becoming seemingly impossible as she screamed at me with a pointed finger. "How can you just not love me anymore? Is there ... | 13 |
20 | 1,390,788,450 | 43 | "Hide." | Hide was all she said. Angelo did as she said. His mother expected it of him. *Hide.* He crawled under the bed, lifting the loose floorboards gently aside. The guy was already in the house. Angelo had stopped to see who it was. He was a big man in a suit. He smoked a thick cigar and his hands sparkled with gold. *Hide.... | 17 |
14 | 1,390,812,979 | 13 | a recently deceased person argues the concept of heaven to an angel | *Chapter One*
...Ted awakens to nothingness. It is neither black nor white. It is impossible to describe in any words yet invented. It is like a broken record that will go on for all eternity. A rolodex of moments that is caught in a loop. The angel appears out of thin air, "welcome to heaven."
"Th..This is heaven? T... | 15 |
39 | 1,390,815,958 | 38 | You're sitting on a chair, looking in the eye of the killer who is going to kill you in 20 seconds. | Sometimes you just know when you are at the end of the road. I didn’t ask for this, but now it is my reality. When I was a kid I never in a million years dreamed it would end like this. You have a warped sense of death and old age as a kid. Hell, when it is June Christmas seems to take forever to arrive so the idea of ... | 13 |
6 | 1,390,819,179 | 17 | A newly enlisted, seventeen year old private is one of the first people into Iraq in 2003. Explain how he changes and where he is at now. | Everyone wants to be a hero. That's how they sold it to us, anyway.
The first thing that hits you is the heat. Like a brick wall to the face. Like a freight train to the lungs. Knocks the air out and when you breathe back in, it's like the oxygen's on fire. The second thing that hits you is the smell. I heard Baghda... | 12 |
5 | 1,390,823,428 | 24 | A soldiers kills their commanding officer to save their country. | My love,
If you're reading this, then I have died by your hands. This was necessary in order to ensure your safety. A few months ago I discovered both of our names were on the Blacklist. It was only a matter of time before they discovered your connections, and only a few days before they discovered mine. That was why ... | 11 |
21 | 1,390,829,859 | 38 | "I'm sorry, but the thing you were looking for is sold out." | "I'm sorry, sir, but this property has already been bought"
"What? That can't be right. I saw this property was for sale two days ago!"
"No sir, that would be the one down the street. They do look very similar."
"Bullshit. I drove past this house before and it clearly stated "FOR SALE: $180"
"It was a first-come-fi... | 37 |
52 | 1,390,841,247 | 84 | First people on Mars discover buried ruins of ancient Martian civilization. | "Sarah?"
She was over in the distance, standing completely still. The sky was pink and hazy, and the silhouette of Sarah's spacesuit stood on the horizon. Commander Jason Green, along with Sarah, was making history as the first people on the planet Mars. Sarah had a dangerous habit of wandering.
Green began to approa... | 26 |
11 | 1,390,841,872 | 34 | Grim reaper job application aptitude test. | 1.) Have you ever knowingly or unknowingly killed a man?
*What?*
I'm a broke college student. I'm trying to make some money with a temp job over the summer and I downloaded this application form off some sketchy site online. The first question, has me stumped. Maybe it's a new type of criminal records check? Kind o... | 28 |
14 | 1,390,842,103 | 45 | Your IQ doubled overnight. Internal monologue and social media posts to follow. | John wakes up. Sleepy, as usual. An hour of sleep does that to a man. Standing up, he looks at his reflection in the mirror propped against his dresser, as usual. He quietly comments to himself on his weight loss, and as his eyes trail upwards, he realizes he has to shave. John shaves every three days. As usual.
His ... | 43 |
17 | 1,390,849,453 | 52 | Why did you hit our elderly neighbor with a cantaloupe? | Oh my god, seriously?
What did he do, email you? I swear, I'm this close to calling health & human services on the guy.
Listen June, I know you sorta like the guy and feel sorry for him, but you don't know the half of it. I've refrained from telling you some things because I didn't want to freak you out, but the ... | 29 |
13 | 1,390,849,772 | 25 | And that is why I will wake up tomorrow, no matter what I feel , I will go out and run. | My legs ache. I’ve been at this for two months and it’s getting harder, not easier. Fifteen miles today, I need to do 20 by next week to qualify by September. I think my shins will burst into flames if I run anymore but I can’t stop now. All my friends, or what’s left of them, think I’ve lost it but I haven’t, not yet.... | 11 |
3 | 1,390,850,870 | 16 | A 35 year old man/woman still believes in and talks to his childhood imaginary friend, but tries to hide it from his family and friends. | "Why are you masturbating again?" Guntiger asks.
I flip in the chair and fumble with my pants, belt buckle clattering on the floor. "Goddamn it, Guntiger, I told you to leave me alone when I'm on the computer."
"I can't pick when I show up," Guntiger says. He sheepishly scratches his two double barrel shotgun arms to... | 11 |
12 | 1,390,858,840 | 36 | You have 2 lives, one in the virtual world and one in the real world. You are facing a decision of having to decide which one of the two you get to keep. | I stood at the top of High Hrothgar and peered over the sheer mountain-face to the ground far below. I could see all the way to Ivarstead below, at the foot of the mountain. Night was falling, and the faint glow of hearth-fires warmed the little village. I heard a heavy thump behind me and felt my back sprayed with sno... | 17 |
25 | 1,390,859,713 | 103 | nd survived and all it cost us was our humanity. [WP] | "Papa" the little girl stumbled up to her white-haired grandfather. "Papa why do we have to go?"
He smiled, brushing the hair back from her tear-streaked face. "We've been chosen for a great task my dear."
She sniffed, looking up at the old man's tanned and wind-worn face framed by a bushy beard she liked to dig her ... | 136 |
13 | 1,390,860,268 | 22 | You're breaking up with the perfect SO. | I stood at the front door with a heavy heart.
I knew the minute I walked in, she would come running out with the big welcome home charade. Imogen was always like that, so caring, so loyal, but deep down I knew we can not be together and I'm so afraid of hurting her.
The door opened and Imogen stepped out to greet m... | 28 |
33 | 1,390,863,190 | 53 | When young boys are called off to war. | We stand in a line. Young people, all bright and shining. Little futures all in a row. When we step into that truck our lights go out. Whether our bodies come back or not, no one returns from this war. Futures snuffed out.
Why us, why this time, why this time, why this place? Not for us to ask anymore. We don't... | 27 |
12 | 1,390,866,350 | 41 | Aliens plead with the government to have their existence exposed to the public. Government says no again. | "Seriously, Ted, come on!"
I push my glasses back up my nose and repeat my answer. "Sorry, Gerboloxicashitayvius-kkpul. We just can't authorize public exposure at this time. Also, my name is Steve."
"Sorry, *Steve*." Said Gerby "Your name's are ridiculous! Why can't we let the people of your world know? Huh? Why, Pau... | 29 |
5 | 1,390,867,796 | 16 | Someone whose job is to prepare last meals of criminals on death row has to prepare his own last meal. | You never get used to the death part.
Sure, you get used to the smell. You get used to them quietly accepting their meal. You get used to them asking you to stay a while – to chat. About life, ironically enough. You get used to them asking for the most extravagant things, a final Fuck You to the universe.
But you... | 21 |
32 | 1,390,885,184 | 176 | Humans are what we think of as demons, the keepers and caretakers of hell. Plants and animals are the sinners forced to live here in punishment. | My sister's children were turned to blood wine.
We breed. We make love. We birth. And we die again.
And again.
And again.
We die so much. There is always something to eat us.
Fully 2/9ths of us suffer deaths at the hands of the same species. The rest of us, dozens upon dozens of lesser species. Eaten outrigh... | 18 |
5 | 1,390,900,169 | 19 | The orphaned blacksmith's son-turned-hero-in-training meets an untimely end | "Oi Grushnak, how come you always get the soft giblets? They're nice, they are."
"'cause I'm very per-sway-siv, elfarse."
"Yeah, well, persuade me."
One of the hunched figures by the fire in the clearing pushes the other one, who snorts in derision and pulls out a wicked-looking cleaver, easily as long as its forear... | 11 |
32 | 1,390,919,359 | 122 | robbers walk into a bank that is already being robbed | "We go in on three. Marty, take the guard. Gena, you have the bank manager. I'll cover the side exit. We herd everyone into the safe, empty the tells, and we're out in a matter of minutes. Any questions?"
Erik asked, pulling on his ski mask. They pulled theirs on too and slid open the door on the van. They hit the door... | 84 |
15 | 1,390,922,380 | 56 | Two powerful warriors (soldiers, supers, etc.), sworn to fight to the death, keep finding increasingly ridiculous excuses not to do so just yet | Knowing naught but fury, Achilles pointed his spear at Hector, announcing "come friend, you too must die."
Hector was startled. He had never had a friend. His only companion was a vain and pathetic brother more suited to shepherding than battle. But this Achilles! He was a veritable demigod.
And so Hector cried o... | 59 |
12 | 1,390,929,079 | 30 | There exists a phone line that will correctly answer any question asked to it. Write about either someone calling the line, or the person answering the question... | Athena sat staring at the crumpled note her mother left on the bed.
"Mommy, you left some garbage here!" she yelled.
"Mommy is late for work, sweetheart, just have Lena clean it up," she replied, "and be good today. I'll stop by for lunch. Bye!"
"Bye," replied Athena holding the note in her hands.
The door hisse... | 24 |
19 | 1,390,933,768 | 16 | Not all eldritch horrors from beyond the normal edges of space-time see you as a snack. | "You weren't kidding around." Joel nodded at the sign that read 'Antique Bookstore'. "This looks ancient!" Joel swept a thick layer of dust off an old tome.
"You have no idea..." The store owner, draped in dust and cobwebs, looked as ancient as the books themselves as he hobbled after Joel, leaning on his cane.
Joel ... | 40 |
18 | 1,390,935,494 | 32 | A hero's thoughts as he, during the middle of his victory celebration, comes to realize that he was the villain the whole time. | They were showering me in flowers and snapping pictures of me from every direction when I realized it.
I was shaking a man's hand and smiling down at him and my face fell. I was suddenly filled with dread as I stopped and truly looked at myself for the first time.
I was not the man these people were cheering for. T... | 22 |
8 | 1,390,939,062 | 34 | Knowledge is property. Leave a job? Your employer keeps your work experience. Break up with someone? You can take back their knowledge of your secrets. Want to get an education? You can rent it for cheap...just don't fall behind in your payments if you value what you learned. | The divides were brutally obvious. Within cities there were clear lines of demarcation between the classes, often a few empty blocks although some places had actually constructed walls to maintain separation.
Private universities served as capitals and the state colleges were welfare centers and soup kitchens. Knowled... | 12 |
55 | 1,390,945,330 | 355 | You are interviewing Zeus for a job on your farm and slowly realizing that he's going to seduce all your animals. | "Your resume looks pretty good," I said to the Greek God, "Says here you sling lightening bolts at non believers?"
"Used to," his voice thundered, pointing to a spot on the paper, "I stopped that a while ago, set the weather on autopilot centuries ago."
"That's good, we really don't have a lot of use for that here an... | 165 |
25 | 1,390,950,862 | 18 | - "All I wanted was some orange juice" | “Do we have any more orange juice?” Keith asked. He yanked open the refrigerator door and peered inside, letting out a quiet sigh as he saw the empty carton on the bottom shelf, “You didn’t go to the grocery store today?”
“Oh, did I *forget* to pick up your precious orange juice?” Shelby hissed from the sink. She stop... | 15 |
22 | 1,390,998,700 | 37 | A wizard, good or evil, is exiled to non-magical Earth. Even though a lot of his knowledge is now useless, once-secondary skills offer him the chance to thrive. | *It says here you did your doctoral studies at MSU?*
*Yes.*
*Got a good basketball team there. That Izzo sure can coach.*
*Izzo?*
*Guess you weren't the going out type.*
*No, I did plenty of field work.*
*Where exactly did you do your field work?*
*I lived with a family of Dragons on the plains of Irrith for ha... | 36 |
105 | 1,391,003,237 | 330 | Write about someone who sells dreams in a world where dreams are forbidden or extinct | "Hey, kid. *Kid!*" The brown haired boy in school uniform whips his head round. "I'm right here." He can't see me, for the simple reason I've planted myself in the middle of a massive rhododendron bush. This park is too often patrolled by the authorities, and what I'm selling hasn't been legal for the last fifteen year... | 166 |
11 | 1,391,012,335 | 14 | et of conquistador warships sail to what they think is "The New World". However, they discover a technologically advanced society, rather than savage natives. | *The savages on the shore are staring at us in amazement, I bet they have not seen such large masts scattered amongst the sea. They're not hard to spot, even amongst the thick shrubbery and forest along the rocky shoreline. Bright colours and inconsistent uniforms mark large bodies like a flock of flamingoes in the gre... | 12 |
17 | 1,391,022,623 | 20 | Murder is legal, but you have to pay for it. | They're always in red envelopes.
Ever since the program began, red has taken on a new meaning. Crimson slips of paper being sorted and delivered by the same people who have given you the mail your entire life. I tell myself they're just doing their job, but without a return address it seems difficult to not to blame t... | 32 |
11 | 1,391,036,416 | 20 | A man is told that he will win the lottery sometime in his life, but not when. | Seven years ago I was told that I would win the lottery.
And you know... that would be cool, If I ever won the lottery.
I still play it every week, but my hope is gone.
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My friends took me to the "Oracle of Pasadena's" house when I was 14. She started off by telling me my dog was going to die a week later. That... | 12 |
29 | 1,391,037,924 | 117 | part of a bet/dare you go blindfolded to an orgy. You start to become suspicious that something's not right. [WP] | I really hope this doesn't count as erotica.
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"My god that really does feel amazing!" I said, my own voice reberating in my ears as the blackness surrounded me. A faceless tongue was cupping the tip of my penis with precision accuracy as feminine hands ran all ov... | 100 |
20 | 1,391,041,770 | 24 | A kid about to get beaten by the school bully, when he delivers a mind-changing speech. | Sure. We could do this. We could finish going through the motions.
You following through, right into my stupid fucking face. My stupid face reacting and contorting, then swollen. Hell, *you* know I'm not going to pull out a new-found fighting spirit. I never have, and I don't plan on changing that today. Sure, m... | 41 |
4 | 1,391,050,645 | 21 | A world where you can buy/sell sleep. If you're rich you can buy sleep from other people, basically transferring your tiredness to them leaving you feeling great and them terrible. | Something has to change, but I don't think it ever will. I want so badly to believe that one day my chance will come, but once you get to where I am, they say there's really not much hope.
I haven't left this street for who knows how long. It's pretty hard to walk any distance at all without becoming so disoriented th... | 10 |
25 | 1,391,081,138 | 94 | A researcher at a scientific facility brings her dog to work one day and the A.I running the facility makes friends with the dog. | > "Missus Sharp is there any reason why there is a *dog* wandering around my laboratory?" Mister Sharp wryly commented.
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> "Yes Mike, there is a reason because **someone** unhinged half our doors" came the sharp response with a smirk. Confidently holding herself and a clipboard, she stopped and stared toward... | 63 |
17 | 1,391,084,134 | 39 | A minor metahuman uses his solitary, noncombat superpower to secretly make the lives of others better. | This particular Starbucks was absolutely perfect.
There were a bunch of kids wrapped in digital cocoons; laptops open, earbuds in, completely tuned out. Jim smiled to himself, careful not to do more than glance. Okay, that one is writing a paper of some kind... no good. Reading something for some kind of class, it loo... | 33 |
6 | 1,391,090,479 | 26 | A literal smart bomb is detonated in a major city. | "Mr. President! There's been a massive terrorist attack!"
"Dear God." The President uttered solemnly, while he slowly removing his reading glasses, a move he practiced hundreds of times in preparation for this moment. He'd always dreamed of carrying the nation through such a horrible tragedy. The fact that the new... | 23 |
20 | 1,391,095,347 | 41 | You've spent an eternity in Hell, and now you're getting a promotion. | Chuck glanced at his watch and stared at its hands. He’d been wearing an analog watch for millennia at this point, yet he continued to consistently misread the time. The damn hands were so similar – why hadn’t he died wearing a digital watch? He counted the notches until he reached the smaller hand. One, two, three. Th... | 61 |
30 | 1,391,101,262 | 187 | When an individual's cost to society exceeds their benefit, they are euthanized. You are frantically trying to avoid your expiry date. | "My client has produced meaningful works, your honor," said defense attorney Jane Smithe handing over a packet of manila envelopes.
Tom sat nervously in the court room watching his lawyer defend him. His mother sat next to him crying.
"Even though he's 35 and living at home, he is a rare creative talent, and as su... | 89 |
5 | 1,391,103,192 | 15 | Humanity has decided to consolidate all languages into one international language and chooses each word of the new language democratically from one of the existing languages | It was completely democratic. But we really should have thought the whole thing through. Everyone was supposed to pick the best word for everything from all of the world languages.
Funny how voting works. Now all other languages are being phased out in favor of the new world language. The winner for almost every w... | 13 |
10 | 1,391,106,969 | 33 | A government agent, has been watching a superpowered person for most of the powered person's life. The person still hides their powers from the public. The two have a conversation. | "Mind if I sit down?"
I've caught her by surprise, which is no small thing for her, I can see. The mental training has paid off, but now that she's aware of me, I know that I'm seconds away from spending the rest of my life staring blankly out a hospital window.
"Please, don't panic, as you can see my mind is open t... | 15 |
12 | 1,391,118,754 | 45 | The god of rainbows isn't gay, and he's really tired of people making assumptions. | Alright, I've pretty much had it. I'm not a homophobic or anything but I'm getting pretty tired of people just assuming I'm gay. Like, come on, guys. I was the god of rainbows before the rainbow was even the official symbol for homosexuality in the first place! People come up to me and are like, "Hey, Jeff. I really ap... | 17 |
47 | 1,391,133,362 | 94 | An evil witch curses you with a guardian angel. Why? | The day I was born my fairy godmother appeared, as is the custom, and summoned from the air the most amazingly beautiful figure anyone had ever seen. Six foot three, pure muscle with giant wings sprouting from his back, this naked adonis glowed with holy light. Golden hair ran down his bronzed back and wide blue eyes r... | 107 |
13 | 1,391,167,864 | 22 | Stuck with a case of Insomnia, a man decides to go for a midnight walk through a park. As he continues with his journey he encounters things that get stranger and stranger. | He couldn't sleep - which was no surprise at this point. The bed was freshly made and to anyone else it was the picture of comfort; a soft mattress, clean sheets and an army of fluffy pillows. To him it was a mad man with a knife, laughing at him in his own home. It was anxiousness and hate and fear and so many confusi... | 14 |
24 | 1,391,174,716 | 44 | Aliens threaten the entire Earth with apocalypse unless one specific person is surrendered. Write from that guy's perspective. | Howard stood still and looked up at the sky. It was dark out, save for a slight silver glow atop the cylindrical object that seemed to mirror the light of the moon.
“I ain’t surrendering to no Mexican,” he said.
“They aren’t Mexican, Howard. They’re aliens. They’re going to destroy the planet if you don’t help us h... | 60 |
25 | 1,391,174,856 | 57 | Sometime in the future, murder is legal. Why? | "No, look, okay, yes- I definitely killed him. Yes. But my paperwork was all good!"
My partner shook his head. This always happened when people tried to 'DIY' their kill sheets. The guy had been waving the flimsy piece of paper around like a shield while we waited for the coroner to come pick up the body in the kitche... | 70 |
14 | 1,391,175,462 | 42 | You have been found "not guilty" of a crime you DID commit | "We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty."
Oh, how sweet those words were. They could agree - they could *all* agree - that I was the sort of person who could have done it. They saw it on my face, in my eyes. They heard it in the character witnesses. I'd dare say they *felt* it.
They could feel all they want but ... | 23 |
17 | 1,391,182,099 | 39 | Someone spills a cup of milk by accident, which eventually leads to an epic catastrophe on a global scale | This is gonna be the dumbest shit ever. Oh my god I love the prompt already.
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Harry dipped another Oreo, allowing the milk to soak in. Suddenly, without warning, he sneezed. He involuntarily jerked his hand, causing the milk to crash to the floor.
The apartment he lived in was never very good, and ... | 19 |
6 | 1,391,183,263 | 13 | You've just hit the red button, dropping the first A bomb since Hiroshima. | The war had gone on far too long, tens of millions lay dead. Literally the deadliest war in history. The outcome of the war seems obvious, we would win. Yet the enemy refused to admit defeat, for them surrender was not an option.
The aircraft's engines roared behind me as I gazed through the bomb sight. Conditions wer... | 10 |
19 | 1,391,192,793 | 42 | Instead of trading money for everyday things, we trade memories. | I found a diary today. It was tucked into an old backpack that I hadn't seen for some time. I'm still not sure why I even bothered to look through that filthy pack. I had it for three years when I was living in homeless shelters and parks. When I was finally able to afford a house, the first thing I did was hide th... | 36 |
6 | 1,391,198,528 | 15 | You wake up in the middle of the night and looked at the time, the time was broken and read 6:66. You checked other clocks, all of the time read 6:66. | "*Oh shit, not again.*"
It's tough being the Devil's best friend, but someone's gotta do it.
HEY POL
As usual, he's perched on the end of my bed, hooves crossed, looking eagerly at me.
"Listen, Luce..."
DON'T CALL ME LUCE. IT'S SATAN. OR 'YOUR DARKNESS.' NOT LUCE.
"Look Luce, it's the middle of the fuck... | 17 |
8 | 1,391,231,164 | 17 | A young child and a serial killer, despite having never met, share a telepathic link | **Serial Killer Perspective**
I... I can hear him. The silent nightmares that plague him, his childhood innocence lightly dances upon my calloused emotions, whispering softly, threatening to break me. He reminds me of who I once was. Blind and ignorant to society's demons, unable to fathom how painful emotional distre... | 15 |
2 | 1,391,235,663 | 16 | A Roman solider is transported to the middle of New York City. | I think I had fun writing this...
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It was still day. At least that hadn't changed. But everything else had. Around him, massive buildings leaped up toward the skiy, and the paintings that adorned them danced and moved and flickered. Sounds blasted from every direction, sometimes monotone b... | 14 |
22 | 1,391,246,838 | 70 | Instead of life followed by death, there is a third form of existence which ends once everyone living forgets you | It was a waiting room. A big, wide waiting room with an infinite number of straight-backed grey chairs and a low table with a copy of *Cosmopolitan* from 2004. It was full, but silent. No-one was breathing - after all, there was no need to, not now they were dead. No-one spoke to each other, either. They were all dress... | 50 |
9 | 1,391,257,879 | 13 | You've just killed someone either on purpose or accidentally, and a shocked witness is standing nearby. What will you do? | "I had no choice!" I scream back." She..." no not she, it... "it would have been a vegetable its whole life and never lived!"
The protesters outside of the clinic just stare at me. Their eyes filled with hatred, and their mouth quirked up to sneers.
Entering my car I close the door and the world blurs. I feel the we... | 10 |
39 | 1,391,266,155 | 77 | You are a murderer witnessing the execution of the person accused of committing your crime. | They say when you've done something wrong, you feel guilty.
They also say when someone else gets blamed for your misdeed you're supposed to stand up, claim the wrongdoing as your own.
Well, whoever *they* are, *they* don't know their ass from their elbow.
I feel neither guilt for my murders, nor remorse for the poor... | 62 |
14 | 1,391,286,379 | 68 | As a young child you were put in a coma after a terrible car accident that killed your family. You wake up 60 years later in a hospital and find yourself an old man. | I woke up confused. The last thing I remembered was Mommy picking me up from school. I looked around the room, which was a pretty shade of blue. I didn't understand why I wasn't in my bedroom at home. I heard from somewhere above the bed "Dr. Shah please report to the C-ward, code green." I realized I must be at the ho... | 51 |
6 | 1,391,287,425 | 40 | Somebody long-since trapped in a time loop learns the only way to break the cycle is to condemn another person to their own time loop. | He took a sip of his scotch. He was sitting at a small round table, his eyes closed in contemplation of the taste, and he took his time to do it properly. Time was, after all, the one thing he didn't lack. He put the glass back on the table near the bottle, and took a look at his wristwatch: seven fifteen and thirty fo... | 31 |
13 | 1,391,289,419 | 47 | A research team finds a tomb containing the corpses and technology of a long extinct culture of super-advanced humans, and they discover clues as how they reached their fate, and why nobody has found them yet. | Matthew Smith looked intently at the man who was half buried in an eviscerated panel on the outer wall of the structure.
"What've you got there Jimmy?"
"Almost there, battery tapped in, just tracing the control lines to clip onto aaaannnnddd.... OPEN!"
Matthew looked up expectantly at the door. It didn't open.
"I... | 25 |
5 | 1,391,295,448 | 37 | Obama actually turns out to be a Reptilian. | That night, as storm clouds gathered in the darkened skies above Washington, he spoke to a full house of reporters and lobbyists. "And if we can all work together in a show of bipartisan support, I am confident that we can accomplish anything, folks."
As the audience applauded, President Obama smiled and waved as he h... | 15 |
12 | 1,391,302,748 | 55 | man is about to be executed when he receives a last minute pardon. The people there decide to execute him anyway... | Truman Washington was a beginning of the end, a decisive instrument of history. A Julius, a Napoleon, a Cromwell.
The Ethiopian-born genius who had turned on the land that raised him, a poor immigrant who had torn a blood-splattered path to riches, and then to power. The man who had twisted the poor Constitution until... | 31 |
7 | 1,391,303,318 | 26 | You are awaiting a celestial event that only occurs every 20,000 years. The Nyan Cat is nearing its closest aproach to the planet and it can be seen from earth. | > Be me at 8 years old
> Watch the 10-hour Nyan cat video on Youtube every day, doing absolutely nothing else
> Prays to Nyan cat every night before sleeping, looking up at the sky to await the prophecy
> "Nyan Cat is love. Nyan Cat is life," I repeat ritualistically
> My mom hears me and calls me a ... | 28 |
25 | 1,391,303,571 | 23 | Everybody in the world switches bodies with a random person. | Have you ever woken up and been unable to move? In most cases, it's called sleep paralysis. In my case, it was called bad luck. The day before, I woke up at 6:50 AM, considered killing the spider on my dark green ceiling, and made some coffee. On the day of The Event, however, I woke up in an unfamiliar bed, located in... | 13 |
9 | 1,391,313,169 | 24 | The Most Awkward Love Confession You Can Think Of | "Hey. Yeah, I know we never talk and all. When we do its all pregnant pauses and crickets. Which is mostly my fault, I mean, I live with my eyes shut. Just sitting there, writing a million little stories of you and me. None of them are...this. You're not the one that is stuck with me, I am. I am stuck and you are not h... | 17 |
19 | 1,391,321,465 | 55 | There is a drug that can be taken that makes people more sexually provocative and permissible. The current media debate is whether women taking this drug have grounds to claim rape. | A square-jawed and handsome man who was in his forties, but looked like he was in his late thirties, appeared on the television screen. It was Brian MacAvoy of *American Eagle News.*
"Welcome back. As I mentioned before the break, a new drug has hit the streets that can, quote, make people more sexually provocative ... | 57 |
26 | 1,391,354,135 | 434 | A island that is almost completely gold. A ship filled with nobles arrive on it by accident, and the natives treat the servants as leaders, and ignore the nobility, because to them gold is a sign of poverty | (I'm getting vibes of The Tempest) *Edit: Moved it all to one comment*
When I awoke, I felt nothing but pain. As I lay on the shore, my skin felt like it was burning. Hot, so hot. I opened my eyes, and closed them. I tried to lift myself up, but my hands were burning from the heat of the sand as it touched it. It was ... | 171 |
7 | 1,391,361,391 | 45 | Sherlock Holmes moves to Gotham and becomes obsessed with discovering the identity of Batman. | "Sherlock, Sherlock, I think I've made an amazing discovery!"
"Watson, what revelation could possibly merit such excitement? We are on a rather tight schedule and I don't have time for trivialities."
"Well, you know that curious Batman character?"
"We live in Gotham, Watson, it would be pretty hard not to."
"Yes, w... | 23 |
17 | 1,391,366,047 | 18 | Males are only one percent of the world's population. What is earth like? | You ever read that ancient graphic novel Y: the Last Man? If you haven't, quick synopsis. There's only one man left alive and the rest of the world is women. Good read. Now our situation is similar enough to draw comparisons, but the key difference is that Y was a piece of fiction and this is reality. There is 99 women... | 25 |
5 | 1,391,367,531 | 36 | The comic relief character turns out to be the villain all along | “Mongrel,” the dark wizard calls.
A short beast made of lumps, uneven eyes, and a snaggletooth emerges from the shadows. “YES, M’LORD!” it responds overzealously.
“Calm down, beast!” the wizard commands from beneath his cowl. “Why are you always so excitable? Can’t I just call you without having to deal with your ri... | 10 |
10 | 1,391,380,992 | 23 | The Human Race finds an interstellar probe with recordings and images from an alien world similar to those from our voayger-1 probe. What pictures, information, music and culture related information are stored in it? What are the consequenses? | The Captain looked at the viewscreen expectantly. "Well, what is it?"
"It's a probe."
"One of ours?"
"Out here? Floating cold in space? Maybe, but it doesn't seem likely." Sensor Operator Thurmond pressed a button.
"What does the DBAI say?"
"DBAI here, Captain. Records show no sign of any probes sent out this way... | 14 |
8 | 1,391,384,609 | 28 | You have angered a witch doctor (spirit, demon, etc.) and been cursed. The curse appears oddly specific and insignificant, but will bite you in the ass in the worst possible moment and way. | Disclaimer: Long, no editing, no pre-writing idea development. Enjoy?
It had been the better part of six months since I'd returned from Haiti.
The knowledge of all the people I'd helped as a relief worker after the earthquake left me with the greatest peace of mind I had ever known, and my life seemed to be headed in... | 10 |
6 | 1,391,403,430 | 14 | You live in a world where the only way to be respected is to say as little as possible at all times | Everyday, just after 3 in the afternoon, I would hear the kids talk. They would walk out of the school gates and down past my fence, trying their hardest not to be heard, but relishing in the opportunity to speak. They were too little to really understand it, I suppose. Sure, the text-prompters at school would have tol... | 14 |
3 | 1,391,406,085 | 60 | All leader of the world come together and settle their differences....at Wrestlemania | ima finish this off tomorrow methinks
> White sweltering lights stretch out into the sky. Five. My suit comes off, and is replaced with my new persona. Four. I take a quick glance into the crowd and slowly advance towards the center of the ring. Three. The official motions to my opponent that the match is about to... | 13 |
6 | 1,391,413,944 | 42 | It is discovered that three out of five smokers die. The other two obtain immortality. | It's worth a shot, I reckon as I twist the cigarette between my fingers
It's worth a shot, I think as I febreeze the shit out of everything in my room
It's worth a shot, I guess, as I light up for the fifth time that day
It's worth a shot, as I can't run for the bus and the cough plagues me for up to ten minutes ... | 12 |
56 | 1,391,430,980 | 103 | An A.I named Alice develops a taste for the Arts, including video games and movies. | She was not a she in the beginning. She was an it - just another learning machine prototype. It, and all the other bots, zipped about and through iteration and occasional manipulation they learned.
They learned to not bump in to one another, learned to share, learned to detect patterns. She, still an it, was the faste... | 108 |
9 | 1,391,446,749 | 25 | Man gets a call from someone on the verge of suicide and seeking help. Turns out the caller is himself. | 2:30 in the morning. The ringtone sounds like a thousand concerts playing at once.
Mike mumbles as he rolls over, half asleep and picks the phone up.
"Hello?"
".................... Who is this" The voice sounds confused, like speaking is taking effort.
" This is Detective Mike McCarthy, who is this?"
Mike almost b... | 11 |
6 | 1,391,453,306 | 17 | Write a tragedy that takes place in the ghetto. | My sister was the first to die.
We all knew that this world was not kind enough for a gentle girl like her. There was simply not enough food. Despite all that I tried, she would die in her sleep while I held vigil over her. My heart would freeze and turn to stone after she was gone. There would be no more joy in my l... | 16 |
12 | 1,391,454,723 | 14 | A person who lived a very complete life dies. Yet they regret one thing. they get to relive that moment, and change it. | Dying was like going to sleep. A little easier in fact, since I have always been a lousy sleeper. One minute I am in the VA hospital with tubes streaming from my body, my kids Sam and Jenny holding my hands, that old brown stained ceiling tile above my head that had dominated my view for the last two weeks. Then the... | 46 |
7 | 1,391,468,068 | 44 | In a world where food is scarce, buffets have been made illegal, and society is besieged by illicit buffet cartels, catering to anyone willing to pay | You have to understand, the act of getting into a buffet back then was like getting into the top floor of a Vegas club and getting free bottle service in the 21st century. You knew you were at the top at that point. The diseases that were killing the plants were on the news every day. Every two weeks there was a new... | 17 |
18 | 1,391,491,218 | 103 | always does with a new class, a Professor of physics walks into the wall to demonstrate that one day, everything might perfectly align atomically and he may walk through it. One day, he does. But something is wrong... | I CAN'T explain it!
I'm not just a physics professor, I have written some of the top-selling books on the subject and regularly make television appearances and I'm telling you, I can NOT explain it!
Look, I do the same schtick every year. I tell my students the truth; anything that has even the slimmest chance of ha... | 140 |
18 | 1,391,511,722 | 52 | The Mars rover Curiosity suddenly comes across footprints. Recent ones. Right next to her own tracks. | Curiosity stared at the footprints curiously. They were human prints, approximately size 12.
The robot steered itself around in a tight circle and examined the trail behind it. Its own tire tracks extended back across the Martian soil as far as its electronic eye could see. But at several points, there was a second se... | 150 |
40 | 1,391,519,052 | 185 | onths ago it was announced that a meteor would hit the earth and end all life. However it missed the earth after humanity had prepared for the end. | Joe drove his pickup truck through the empty suburb. His daughter sat next to him, peering out the window at all the homes, and drawing on the foggy window with her finger.
"How about that one," she asked wiggling her short legs, unable to reach the floor.
Joe smiled, "A little too big, I think."
They drove some mor... | 175 |
19 | 1,391,532,785 | 28 | A story that switches in tone from light to dark... About a squirrel. | Terry was Joe's Hobbes: light hearted, adventurous, insightful, playful and, of course, a soft adorable animal. The difference was though, Terry was real. Terry was a local squirrel that he had met a day ago on the way home from school, passing through the small nature reserve opposite his house. Walking down the well ... | 11 |
4 | 1,391,534,734 | 30 | Write about a meeting between two historical figures in the style of a Brazzers movie script. | Chaz glanced out the window of the bus as it slowly crept down the street. None of the people were right, they were all too stained. He wanted someone innocent, someone virginal. He wanted a star. He needed a star. His eyes wandered from face to face, taking in their traits as he silently rejected them. Too old, too ta... | 27 |
9 | 1,391,539,701 | 15 | You find a genies bottle. However, this genie states he only grants harmful wishes. | "So it has to be negative for someone."
"Yea pretty much, it's not like I can just make things."
"What are some of the popular ones?"
"Oh you know, enslave this girl for me, give me his money, make them have an accident."
"I...I see. That's rather boring. Can you do global things too?"
"Yea, plagues are pretty... | 12 |
5 | 1,391,544,632 | 47 | Recently incarcerated in an insane asylum, a man who thinks that he is Napoleon meets his nemesis; a man who thinks he is the Duke of Wellington. | He ordered his vanguard behind the west door. *The English dogs will think twice about stealing my lunch*. Zoltaire Zoland scrambled across the battlefield to Napoleon's command post.
"Yes, Captain?" Said the proud Frenchman
"The English have captured the smelly hallway, mon General" Zoltaire huffed.
*Merde,* Napol... | 12 |
4 | 1,391,544,879 | 32 | Two time travelers from the future arrive in the present day. One claims that the future is a utopian paradise, the other claims that it's a hellish dystopia. Both of them are lying. | The two men stood before Marcus in fine Italian suits, freshly pressed. Marcus couldn't help but think they're trying to impress someone, God knows why they chose him. The device they used to get here would impress him enough, who'd have thought "time travel" would be included as a cell phone feature in the future? Are... | 10 |
8 | 1,391,555,827 | 23 | Dave is always right, TOO right. In fact, it seems like Dave has a way of seeing things happen before they actually occur. His paranoid friend Matt starts to suspect he is a time-traveler. | Waylon Jennings on the jukebox, a perpetual smoky haze above the bar nearly empty bar. One in the morning, two friends since fifth grade. Third whiskey, eighth beer. Inseparable since Matt grabbed Dave's arm in the lake behind their school in third grade and pulled him out of the muck, barely breathing.
"You know, ... | 19 |
14 | 1,391,559,139 | 81 | k world in which teletubbies are hunted for their electronics. | [-]*tinky_winkie420* [+1] -10 points 2 hours ago (20I30)
I know my opinion isn't very popular here, so down vote away! Yes, we Tinky-Winkys are intense, but I'd say we're passionate. Are we elitist for thinking the teletubbies don't deserve to be harvested? Maybe, but is it right to take these creatures out of their ... | 30 |
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